JDL

“We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character.”
― John Dickson Carr, He Who Whispers

“My only claim to distinction among writers is that I do not believe my life contains any materials for a novel. I have prowled around Limehouse and the gamiest sections of Paris, but I have never yet seen (a) a really choice murder in a locked room, (b) a mysterious mastermind or (c) a really good‐looking adventuress with slant eyes.”
― John Dickson Carr

“Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”
― Catullus, The Complete Poems

“I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Three Coffins